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FROM: "Sue Rice" <[removed]@ascpl.lib.oh.us>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 9:31 AM
I have a patron looking for books like Sharyn McCrumb's Appalachian Ballad
series ("She Walks These Hills", "Hangman's Beautiful Daughter", et. al.)
As far as I know (which is admittedly not all that far!) these are unique.
But you all often come up with anwers that astound me.TIA,
Sue
FROM: Alice Nixon <[removed]@netrax.net>
REC'D: 2/15/02, 1:16 PM
Sue,
Your patron may want to look at the Silver John books by Manly Wade
Wellman. They are set in the South and include a lot of folklore. The books
do have a supernatural/fantasy feel about them. Some of the titles are Old
Gods Waken, Hanging Stones, and John the Balladeer (a collection of short
stories).
Alice
Alice Nixon
Reference Backup/ILL Services Manager
South Texas Library System
805 Comanche
Corpus Christi, Texas 78401
361.880.7086
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 2/16/02, 1:30 PM
What is it about them that your patron likes? If it's the musical
connection, you could point her to Manly Wade Wellman's "Silver John"
fantasies (John is a balladeer whose guitar is strung in silver). If it's
the people, their customs, and their unique speech pattern, you might try
Janice Holt Giles (not her Cooper/Fowler family series of historicals, but
the several novels she wrote about the Appalachian hill people) or Catherine
Marshall's "Christy." Or Jesse Stuart, who taught school in those parts.
Or Sterling North's "So Dear to My Heart."_________________________________________________________________
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